Pay Attention Now (It Could Change Your Brain): Clinical Efficacy and Neural Mechanisms of Mindfulness
Presenter: Judson Brewer, MD, PhD is the Director of Research at the Center for Mindfulness and Associate Professor in medicine and psychiatry at UMass Medical School. He also is adjunct faculty at Yale University, and a research affiliate at MIT. A psychiatrist and internationally known expert in mindfulness training for addictions, Brewer has developed and tested novel mindfulness programs for addictions, including both in-person and app-based treatments. He has also studied the underlying neural mechanisms of mindfulness using standard and real-time fMRI, and is currently translating these findings into clinical use. He has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, spoken at international conferences, presented to the US President’s Office of National Drug Control Policy, and has been featured at TEDx, Time magazine (top 100 new health discoveries of 2013), Forbes, Businessweek, NPR and the BBC among others. He writes an addiction blog for The Huffington Post.
Location:
70 Francis Street, BWH
Shapiro Breakout Room, Shapiro Building, 1st Fl